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Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment is a non-fiction book published in 2020 by French economist and researcher Lucas Chancel. [1] The book explores the intricate relationship between social inequalities and environmental degradation, offering a comprehensive analysis of the global challenges posed by these intertwined issues.
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools is a book written by Jonathan Kozol in 1991 that discusses the disparities in education between schools of different classes and races. [1] It is based on his observations of various classrooms in the public school systems of East St. Louis , Chicago , New York City , Camden , Cincinnati , and ...
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better [1] is a book by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, [2] published in 2009 by Allen Lane. The book is published in the US by Bloomsbury Press (December, 2009) with the new sub-title: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. [3]
Economic inequality is an umbrella term for a) income inequality or distribution of income (how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them), b) wealth inequality or distribution of wealth (how the total sum of wealth owned by people is distributed among the owners), and c) consumption inequality (how the total sum of money spent by people is distributed among the spenders).
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems. United States: PublicAffairs. November 12, 2019. ISBN 978-1-61039-950-0. 432 pages. [3] Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems. India: Juggernaut Books. November 12, 2019. ISBN 9789353450700. 416 pages. [15]
Inequality for All is a 2013 documentary film directed by Jacob Kornbluth and narrated by American economist, author and professor Robert Reich. Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States. Reich publicly argued about the issue for decades, and ...
But the authors of the World Inequality Lab study reached this conclusion by tracking how much of India’s total income, as well as wealth, is held by the country’s top 1%. While income refers ...
Buildings in Rio de Janeiro, demonstrating economic inequality. Effects of income inequality, researchers have found, include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods, [1] a lower population-wide satisfaction and happiness [2] [3] and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption. [4]